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Rufus Wainwright

Rufus Wainwright is a person from Montréal, active since 1973.

Person Montréal since 1973 alternative rock folk american

TOTAL PLAYS

1,210

SONGS PLAYED

144

STATIONS

FIRST PLAYED

2005-02-14 13:25 · 6 Music — "The One You Love"

LAST PLAYED

3 weeks ago · 6 Music — "I Don't Know What It Is"

BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2005 — 2026

200 150 100 50 0

'05 '08 '11 '14 '17 '20 '23 '26

◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 954 79%

Radio 2 250 21%

Radio 1 6 0%

1Xtra 0 0%

◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 19:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT

#TITLEPLAYSLAST

1 The One You Love 100 2021-01-11

2 I Don't Know What It Is 97 2026-08-19

3 Rules and Regulations 83 2024-06-26

4 Crumb by Crumb 80 2019-10-08

5 Going To A Town 75 2024-03-17

6 The Art Teacher 68 2025-01-13

7 Hallelujah 63 2025-12-22

8 Spotlight on Christmas 45 2025-12-24

9 Out Of The Game 38 2023-02-12

10 Beautiful Child 37 2026-07-19

11 Me And Liza 37 2014-07-11

12 California 32 2026-05-21

◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-08-19 04:00 I Don't Know What It Is 6 Music

2026-08-16 19:03 Over The Rainbow Radio 2

2026-08-04 21:01 I Don't Know What It Is 6 Music

2026-07-19 13:55 Beautiful Child 6 Music

2026-07-19 12:25 Rebel Prince 6 Music

2026-05-21 07:53 California 6 Music

2025-12-26 17:55 Baby It's Cold Outside (feat. Sharon Van Etten) Radio 2

2025-12-24 17:16 Baby It's Cold Outside (feat. Sharon Van Etten) 6 Music

2025-12-24 12:45 Spotlight on Christmas 6 Music

2025-12-22 20:16 Hallelujah Radio 2

2025-12-17 05:23 Hallelujah 6 Music

2025-11-20 05:50 California 6 Music

◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

144 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z

BAR ▶

14th Street —

6 2022-11-12 ▶

14Th Street (Glastonbury 2007) —

1 2007-06-23 ▶

14Th Street - Glatonbury 2005 —

1 2008-10-28 ▶

A Woman's Face - Reprise (Sonnet 20) —

5 2018-03-06 ▶

Across the Universe —

4 2019-07-22 ▶

Across The Universe (Remix) —

1 2017-07-08 ▶

Agnus Dei —

1 2015-06-07 ▶

Albatross (Judy Garland Tribute) —

1 2011-07-26 ▶

Alone (Cambridge Folk Festival 2023) (feat. Lucy Wainwright Roche) —

1 2023-08-02 ▶

Alone Time —

6 2021-10-07 ▶

Art Teacher - Glastonbury 2005 —

5 2017-01-25 ▶

Baby It's Cold Outside (feat. Sharon Van Etten) —

27 2025-12-26 ▶

Barbara —

2 2012-05-07 ▶

Barcelona —

3 2024-03-25 ▶

Beautiful Child —

37 2026-07-19 ▶

Beautiful Child - Glastonbury 2005 —

2 2008-10-28 ▶

Beautiful World <Live Earth> —

1 2007-07-09 ▶

Beauty Mark —

2 2010-08-18 ▶

Between My Legs —

4 2007-07-20 ▶

Bitter Tears —

1 2012-04-25 ▶

California —

32 2026-05-21 ▶

California, —

17 2008-12-14 ▶

Chic And Pointless —

1 2014-01-15 ▶

Cigarettes & Chocolate Milk —

1 2015-06-17 ▶

Cigarettes and Chocolate —

1 2016-11-28 ▶

Cigarettes And Chocolate Milk —

8 2025-03-25 ▶

Cigarettes And Chocolate Milk - Glastonbury 2005 —

6 2017-01-25 ▶

Cotton Eyed Joe (feat. Chaka Khan) —

1 2024-01-14 ▶

Crumb by Crumb —

80 2019-10-08 ▶

Crumb By Crumb - 6Music Session 04/03/2005 —

1 2014-09-11 ▶

Crumb By Crumb - Glastonbruy 2005 —

3 2009-11-13 ▶

Crumb By Crumb - Glastonbury 2005 —

2 2017-01-25 ▶

Damsel In Distress —

10 2022-07-31 ▶

Dinner At Eight —

5 2015-01-18 ▶

Do I Disappoint You —

1 2007-05-14 ▶

Down in the Willow Garden (feat. Brandi Carlile) —

2 2023-06-04 ▶

Down Where The Drunkards Roll —

3 2013-10-17 ▶

Everybody Knows —

1 2012-01-27 ▶

Gay Messiah —

3 2025-11-03 ▶

Gay Messiah - Glastonbury 2005 —

1 2019-06-29 ▶

Give Me What I Want And Give It To Me Now! —

1 2010-04-12 ▶

Go Or Go Ahead —

2 2009-09-12 ▶

Going To A Town —

75 2024-03-17 ▶

Going to a Town (Cambridge Folk Festival 2023) (feat. Lucy Wainwright Roche) —

1 2023-08-16 ▶

Going To a Town (Glastonbury 2022) —

2 2022-06-30 ▶

Going To A Town (Live) —

1 2011-04-21 ▶

Going to a Town - BBC 6 Music Session 09/05/2007 —

1 2022-11-02 ▶

Greek Song —

12 2024-12-02 ▶

Grey Gardens —

6 2021-11-16 ▶

Hallelujah —

63 2025-12-22 ▶

Hallelujah (Piano Room Version) —

4 2025-07-22 ▶

Hallelujah (Radio 2 Session, 11 Jun 2015) —

2 2019-04-12 ▶

Hallelujah (Radio 2 Session, 11th June 2015) —

2 2015-06-15 ▶

Hallelujah. —

3 2008-11-20 ▶

Harvest (feat. Chris Stills & Andrew Bird) —

2 2023-05-31 ▶

Harvester Of Hearts —

2 2017-10-02 ▶

Heading for Home (feat. John Legend) —

14 2024-08-13 ▶

Heart of Glass (Sofa Session, 14th July 2020) —

1 2020-07-15 ▶

High on a Rocky Ledge (feat. David Byrne) —

2 2025-01-20 ▶

Hush Little Baby (Cambridge Folk Festival 2023) —

1 2023-08-12 ▶

I Don't Know What It Is —

97 2026-08-19 ▶

I Don't Know What It Is (Radio 2 Session, 11 Jun 2015) —

3 2016-03-03 ▶

I Don't Know What It Is (Radio 2 Session, 11th June 2015) —

1 2015-06-11 ▶

I Eat Dinner (Lekesch & Schekel Edit) —

1 2014-11-08 ▶

If love were all —

1 2014-06-09 ▶

Imaginary Love —

6 2022-04-17 ▶

In A Graveyard —

4 2017-04-24 ▶

In My Arms (Glasto 2005) —

1 2006-09-20 ▶

In My Arms - Glastonbury 2005 —

3 2017-01-25 ▶

Jericho —

28 2017-01-04 ▶

Kaulana Nā Pua (feat. Nicole Scherzinger) —

2 2024-01-14 ▶

Les Feux d'Artifice (Radio 2 Session, 11th June 2015) —

1 2015-06-11 ▶

Lost In Tiergatan (Remix) —

1 2013-07-14 ▶

Martha (Live Kenwood House) —

1 2011-07-26 ▶

Me & Liza —

1 2014-02-25 ▶

Me And Liza —

37 2014-07-11 ▶

Memphis Skyline / Hallelujah - Glastonbury 2005 —

4 2017-01-25 ▶

Montauk —

1 2014-06-09 ▶

Movies Of Myself —

5 2016-11-06 ▶

Nacht und Träume —

1 2024-01-14 ▶

Natasha —

2 2024-06-30 ▶

Oh What A World —

28 2025-10-12 ▶

Oh What A World - Glastonbury 2005 —

2 2013-06-27 ▶

One I Love - Glastonbury 2005 —

3 2018-03-17 ▶

One Man Guy —

4 2023-01-15 ▶

Only The People That Love —

2 2020-12-13 ▶

Out Of The Game —

38 2023-02-12 ▶

Over The Rainbow —

2 2026-08-16 ▶

Over the Rainbow (feat. Kate McGarrigle) —

1 2017-07-30 ▶

Peaceful Afternoon —

2 2020-12-13 ▶

Perfect day —

2 2024-11-03 ▶

Perfect Man —

1 2021-06-16 ▶

Poses —

7 2025-04-30 ▶

Pretty Things (6 Music Session, 18 May 2004) —

1 2022-02-01 ▶

Rashida —

1 2012-06-24 ▶

Rebel Prince —

3 2026-07-19 ▶

Release Ths Stars - BBC 6 Music session 09/05/2007 —

1 2022-11-02 ▶

Romantical Man —

1 2020-10-30 ▶

Rules and Regulations —

83 2024-06-26 ▶

Sanssouci —

1 2007-05-11 ▶

Sanssouci - 6 Music session 09/05/2007 —

1 2022-11-02 ▶

Sanssouci - Hub Session 09/05/2007 —

2 2007-12-24 ▶

Scene 3: Vocalise (From "Prima Donna") —

1 2018-11-04 ▶

Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours) —

1 2023-12-10 ▶

Slideshow —

1 2011-04-17 ▶

Sometimes You Need —

1 2012-04-25 ▶

Somewhere Over The Rainbow (Glastonbury 2022) —

2 2022-06-27 ▶

Spotlight on Christmas —

45 2025-12-24 ▶

Take All My Lovers —

1 2016-04-25 ▶

The Art Teacher —

68 2025-01-13 ▶

The Art Teacher (6 Music Session 03.12.2005) —

2 2015-11-12 ▶

The Art Teacher (6 Music Session) —

1 2005-08-25 ▶

The Art Teacher (6 Music Session, 3 Dec 2015) —

5 2022-11-07 ▶

The Dream —

1 2010-04-12 ▶

The One You Love —

100 2021-01-11 ▶

The One You Love (6 Music session 4.03.05) —

1 2015-11-09 ▶

The Tower of Learning —

1 2015-02-23 ▶

This Love Affair —

4 2023-07-01 ▶

This Love Affair (6 Music session 3,12,2005) —

1 2014-09-10 ▶

This Love Affair (6 Music Session, 3 Dec 2015) —

4 2022-02-01 ▶

Tiergarten —

13 2009-08-23 ▶

Tiergarten (Supermayer Lost in the Tiergarten Remix) —

1 2016-07-14 ▶

Tiergarten (Supermayer remix) —

1 2014-01-31 ▶

Trouble In Paradise —

3 2019-11-06 ▶

True Loves —

1 2010-04-12 ▶

Unfollow the Rules —

3 2020-10-30 ▶

Unperfect Actor (Sonnet 23) (feat. Helena Bonham Carter, Martha Wainwright & Fiora Cutler) —

1 2016-04-25 ▶

Ups and Downs —

1 2011-07-26 ▶

Vibrate —

14 2023-02-12 ▶

Vicious World —

16 2024-11-18 ▶

Want —

24 2025-04-07 ▶

What Are You Doing New Year's Eve —

1 2024-12-30 ▶

When In Disgrace With Fortune And Men's Eyes (Sonnet 29) (feat. Florence Welch & Ben De Vries) —

1 2025-10-02 ▶

Who Are You New York? —

1 2010-04-13 ▶

Who Knows Where The Time Goes (Radio 2 Folk Awards, 27 April 2016) —

1 2016-04-27 ▶

Who Knows Where The Time Goes (Live at The 2016 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards) —

1 2017-02-15 ▶

Who Knows Where The Time Goes (R2 Folk Awards 2016) —

2 2016-05-05 ▶

Who Knows Where the Time Goes? (Live at the Radio 2 Folk Awards 2016) —

1 2017-02-16 ▶

Wonderful/Song For Children —

1 2016-05-14 ▶

You Ain't Big —

5 2020-10-30 ▶

You Ain't Big (Sofa Session, 14th July 2020) —

1 2020-07-14 ▶

You Made Me Love You/For Me And My Gal/The Trolley Song [Live] —

1 2013-10-13 ▶

You're Nearer —

1 2020-04-25 ▶

Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart (Live) —

1 2014-03-02 ▶